The goal of LibNameplate is to let you pull info from nameplates and/or add frames to nameplates. Replacing whole nameplates is probably out of it's scope.

Some features of LibNampelate are:

• LibNameplate keeps track of when nameplates are shown / hidden and has callbacks for these events.
  
• LibNameplate provides API to pull info from nameplates such as the name, class, threat ect.
  
• LibNameplate also links GUID's with nameplates allowing you to differentiate nameplates with the same name.
  

LibNameplate supports the default nameplates as well as Aloft*, Tidy Plates*, caelNameplates* and dNameplates* (see known issues page).

* Working before Cataclysm. Current status unknown.

If your nameplate addon alters the existing frames/regions of a nameplate (instead of creating new ones and hiding the Blizzard ones), then that addon's likely not going to work with LibNameplate.

Todo:

• None
  

To get a handle in lua:

local LibNameplate = LibStub("LibNameplate")

API page here.
Callback page here.
Discussion forum: here.
Known issues page: here
Code example page: here

Warning: Replacing or altering existing elements of a nameplate could break LibNameplate's API. If you plan on doing this, please let me know so I can add support for your modifications.

Projects that use LibNameplate

• PlateBuffs
  
• DiminishingReturns (experimental)
  
• mNameplates
  
• EPEEN
  

Credits:

• danltiger - Nameplate colour code from TidyPlates
  
• WoWAce's IRC team, Torhal, Arrowmaster, orionshock, Gagorian, haste and others.
  
• Adirelle - Removed garbage table creation, proper hook creation, proper localized variable creation in a lib.
  
• archarodim - Helped with 4.1 fix. Likely other fixes too.
  

Donations welcome. There's a donate button here.

Bitcoin address: 13mvJMp8Z38SUAnZ4PgGpio5L2inqWQGsP

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